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Public Media Women in Leadership Inc

Public Media Women in Leadership Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$143k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$225k
Net assets
$186k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Public Media Women in Leadership Inc does

Mission

the organization's primary exempt purpose is to foster a women-centric mentorship program that teaches and prepares women for organizational leadership in public media and to bring public awareness to the critical need for diversity of leadership in the media industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization's mentorship program facilitates mentor/mentee partnerships, connecting mentees in the early years of their career with mentors that are mid-level or c-level management across various disciplines in public media. The mentorship program has benefited around 200 women with direct one-to-one career and leadership mentoring and has a nearly 100% satisfaction rate for mentors and mentees.

    $89,611 spent
    62% of program spending
  2. The organization hosted the annual brave talk conference and virtual webinars covering topics identified as crucial to leadership success - business, life-balance, personal development, and leadership and management.

    $54,914 spent
    38% of program spending
  3. The organization hosted virtual "connection hour" gatherings where future leaders in public media come together to share insights, spark innovation, and build authentic connections that strengthen our collective leadership journey. Expenses are included in form 990-ez, part iii, line 32.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $144,525.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2020 Revenue 179 ($131k) Expenses 122 ($68k) Net assets 454 ($81k)2021 Revenue 89 ($65k) Expenses 79 ($44k) Net assets 574 ($102k)2022 Revenue 273 ($200k) Expenses 258 ($142k) Net assets 987 ($176k)2023 Revenue 294 ($215k) Expenses 289 ($160k) Net assets 1160 ($207k)2024 Revenue 248 ($181k) Expenses 302 ($167k) Net assets 1241 ($221k)2025 Revenue 196 ($143k) Expenses 324 ($179k) Net assets 1041 ($186k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (196)Expenses (324)Net assets (1041)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $102k to $192k (+88%).

$18k
$81k
$102k
$192k
$226k
$248k
$189k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of Public Media Women in Leadership Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’19
$63k
’20
$22k
’21
$57k
’22
$55k
’23
$14k
’24
−$36k
’25
17
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $50k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Public Media Women in Leadership Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

Public Media Women in Leadership Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Public Media Women in Leadership Inc has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Colorado

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Public Media Women in Leadership Inc?
Public Media Women in Leadership Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being WYNCOTE FOUNDATION ($225,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Public Media Women in Leadership Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $225,000 in grants to Public Media Women in Leadership Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Public Media Women in Leadership Inc?
WYNCOTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Public Media Women in Leadership Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing